A small asteroid has been discovered following the Earth around the Sun. This object is too far away to be a new Moon, but it's definitely trapped in a tug-of-war between the gravitational attraction of our planet and the Sun.

The new assessment adds further fuel to a debate on how dinosaurs were doing when a 10km-wide space rock slammed into Earth 66 million years ago.
A team suggests the creatures were in long-term decline as they could not cope with the way Earth changed.

One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since then, the spacecraft has delivered a wealth of images and other data ...

The discoverer of Asteroid 316201 got the right to name it. She chose to name it after Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani campaigner for education for girls and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Malala famously survived a Taliban assassination attempt.

A huge asteroid will become the largest space rock of its kind to pass closest to Earth until 2027 today (Jan. 26) when it zooms safely by Earth beyond the orbit of the moon, and you can see the space rock's flyby live online.

NASA says it just takes a pair of binoculars to see this giant, third-of-a-mile-wide space rock as it makes its closest approach on January 26th. It's already under big-time surveillance, as logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

Warning: this article contains mild planetary peril. Well, that didn't take long. At the end of last year, it was some anomaly of an ancient Mesoamerican calendar which ramped up irrational concerns that the Universe was out to smite Earth mightily.

Patsy Cline's classic country song "I Fall to Pieces," has nothing on this one. Scientists said on Thursday they have observed for the first time an asteroid breaking apart, crumbling into at least 10 pieces in sort of a celestial, slow-motion train wreck

Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the evening of May 29th (May 30th Universal Time) when the asteroid was about 6 milli